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I did try to get literal with reCAPTCHA a while back, and it just never finished. "Select every image with a bicycle in it" or motorcycle or stop light. I would select the images that only had a WHOLE in it, not the broken up ones into several images. It doesn't like it when you try to answer it's question properly.

Anyways, there's several other captcha and anti-bot services now days, really would recommend people use a different provider, I hate reCaptcha so much.

Jokes on them. I randomly select extra or less boxes than are correct. Yes, it takes me more time but I'm doing my little part to stymy Skynet.

Yeah it's pretty clearly just getting people to manually train self-driving cars for a while now.

Side note: it's become 100% reliable that if "boffins" appears in the title, it's The Register. Damn, they love that word.

there should be a plugin that autosolves these

Always has been

This seems like the critical part to me:

The paper, released in November 2023, notes that even back in 2016 researchers were able to defeat reCAPTCHA v2 image challenges 70 percent of the time. The reCAPTCHA v2 checkbox challenge is even more vulnerable – the researchers claim it can be defeated 100 percent of the time.

reCAPTCHA v3 has fared no better. In 2019, researchers devised a reinforcement learning attack that breaks reCAPTCHAv3's behavior-based challenges 97 percent of the time.

So it isn't even effective at deterring bots? Then what the hell was all this for?